Yikes! I received a big and unexpected bill in the mail. How am I going to pay for this?! You may have experienced a similar situation; maybe your car broke down, or you got an unexpected medical bill, or you’re going through a divorce or breakup. According to authors...
“Wow! It snowed a foot last night!” This is what I said when I woke up the other morning. We in the Sierras were blanketed by a huge snowstorm. Tahoe had record-breaking snowfall. At first it was novel and pretty, but then when my husband and I tried using our cell...
Does your mind bombard you with “what if” scenarios? Maybe you dread getting up in the morning to face the day? Or perhaps you are stressed by the pressures of work, family, and bills and don’t feel you have enough time or the resources to make everyone happy. Can you...
Buddhism teaches us how the mind is responsible for most of our suffering. We want to control things and are attached to how they turn out. It is the way our brain works to make meaning and survive. We evolved to make sense of things and avoid threats; however, that...
I’m working on a deadline (or was working) and I find myself on an irrelevant website making a decision that I don’t need to be making right now because I got distracted by looking at my email. How many of you can relate to this scenario? Today, we are constantly...